To date there has been no research on the experience of 'missing' in romantic relationships. The current study seeks to define and analyze the concept of missing from a prototype perspective. In Study 1, subjects listed ...

France and the United States often have opposing cultural value systems that arise from the ideologies of their political foundations and are mirrored in the structuring of their school systems. While both are historical ...

I performed a study in the summer of 2004 funded by the Kessinger Grant from the Department of Anthropology at Haverford College. I worked for a non profit organization in Islamabad, SAHIL, which has been working with the ...

This study is focused on the evolution of the National Basketball Association between 1998 and 2006, primarily the relationships between owners, players, and management in this time period. More specifically, this study ...

The United States Criminal Justice System claims to aim for rehabilitation of all inmates who pass through the prison system. However, only approximately 1 out of every 12 inmates is offered the type of extensive counseling ...

My study investigates media and personal influence on the everyday use of beauty products. Previous research identifies two roles in the spread of ideas from media: the influential and the imitator. Using social network ...

I assess ritual theory and its relevance and workability in explaining postmodern Western societies, and I thereby arrive at a functional
definition for ritual. I center this functional definition within cultural theories ...

In his Transaction Cost Economics, Oliver Williamson conceptualizes power as hierarchical fiat that is obeyed by agents out of their self-interest. This conception of power is consistent with the neoclassical nature of ...

Over the preceding decade, elementary school students in the Middleton and Orchardville school districts performed comparably on the mathematics section of the yearly state-administered standardized test. During the same ...

Stand-up comedy performance provides a space for audiences to experience collective
effervescence. The biggest challenge to that effervescence is the heckler, and the ways in which
comedians deal with hecklers underscore ...

Nearly forty percent of released prisoners recidivate and are re-incarcerated within three years of their release. Released prisoners not only face the stigma of having a criminal record but also perpetual unemployment, ...

In this thesis, I move to situate the provision of "aggressive" end of
life care within the broader context of Americans' cultural
understandings of death and dying. Drawing principally from the
works of Talcott Parsons, ...

During the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the United States witnessed the
strikingly unfamiliar qualities of African American race, Mormon religious faith, and
female gender in front-running candidates Barack ...

My following project explores the intersection of race, culture, and differential academic student
outcomes in public schools. Located in my research is a deeper inquiry concerning the
challenges of integrating cultural ...

The goal of this paper is to make the argument that Confucian Chinese government capable of upholding the rule of law is possible. We address this question in three phases: 1)
characterizing Confucianism’s influence in ...

I argue that the performance of deviant black masculinity – as articulated through images of bodily violence, criminal activity and exaggerated sexuality – represents a carnivalesque space, in which neoliberal life goals ...

Most Americans today believe that racism was a problem overcome by the civil rights movement, and what social
inequalities remain today can be overcome through hard work and persistence. While contemporary African
Americans ...

This paper compares the cultural logics of contemporary USA and China through analysis of their respective religious foundations: Protestantism and Confucianism. The logics are analyzed with respect to their facilitation ...